Short for ‘Perhaps The Last’, this real-time performance is generated on video synthesizers, spiral trip away! Created by electronic art pioneers Dan Sandin, Tom Defanti and Mimi Shevitz; Spiral PTL was in the inaugural video art collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
When a friend showed me this video for the first time, I asked him, “How would you go about making a video like this? How would you describe this vision to a director?” It turns out that you don’t. Carl Burgess was given complete freedom in creating this video for Ratatat, and the finished product was made entirely from stock footage. Here’s a full article on the production: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662128/carl-burgess-director-of-the-years-creepiest-coolest-music-video
And while the above is my favorite, I think it would be dishonest of me to post a Ratatat video for a community like the DPV without tossing in at least one more. I’d say Falcon Jab is probably the most traditionally psychedelic of their videos–that I’ve seen, anyway–but there’s just something all too human in the video for Drugs that made me choose it for my headline this Saturday.
EDIT: (Previous post was of making of. Now see watch film!)
It’s finally here! The latest short from PES, the master of stop motion filmmaking who brought us the academy award nominated ‘Fresh Guacamole‘. PES has once again achieved an other-wordly sense of motion, striking the perfect balance between persistent movement and the punctuated feel of frame-by-frame filming. There is something remarkably entracing about every carefully choreographed and calculated movement. Submarine Sandwich is a mind-bogglingly precise and technical undertaking that manages to comes through fully coloured by PES’ characteristic whimsy and charming childlike playfulness. Check it out!
Three processes interact to make this animation. A spontaneous differentiation due to a multi-scale Turing instability causes the development of dots and lines of various colors. Each color is also a movement, leading to a compressible flow which smears and obliterates the dots and lines. The third process is an overall exponential growth or inflation. Small structures expand, and the Turing instability causes sub-structures to form.
By Jonathan McCabe
Check out this mind-blowing live painting using oil, acrylic and ferrofluid. Perry Hall’s website has 40+ Live Painting Videos, so drop everything, put on your favourite psychedelic background music and let your mind be washed away with this fluid, magnetic art.
It’s hard not to like these guys. If you can dig a bit of hip-hop, their beats are crazy smooth. If you’re an idealist about journeys into the music industry, the group is formed from four high school friends who found a passion in digging through old records and working turntables; now they’re the reigning champions at international competitions for the genre. And if by some chance you happen to have an interest psychedelic videos, theirs are off the hook. Each a very different style, each a joy to watch. They come from France, and so for now they’re bigger in Europe than in the US, but this kind of quality is bound to catch on.
Let’s Enjoy these Cop’s moving Mandalas 🙂 !
And thanks to Ben Labûche for sharing this with me !
Amazing psychedelic video to Gnucci’s Work.
(Link: Alexander Danielsson. Thanks!)
One of my favorite Canadians, animator Amy Lockhart, gets groovy with AfterEffects and the lovely Miss Edmonton TeenBurger 1983 to show the evil Princesses who’s boss.
